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Title: Miss Kilmansegg and her precious leg; a golden legend
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Hood, Thomas, 1799-1845 Seccombe, Thomas Strong, 1840-1899, illus
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Publisher: London, E. Moxon, son & co.
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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In a garden of Gu! reposes—Poor Peggy liaAvks nosegays from street to streetTill—think of that, who find life so sweet — She hates the smell of roses. AND HER TRECIOUS LEG.
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Not so with the infant KiLMANSEGG!She was not born to steal or beg, Or gather cresses in ditches ;To plait the straw or bind the shoe,Or sit all day to hem and sew.As females must,—and not a few— To fill their insides with stitches MISS KILMANSEGG She was not doomd, for bread to eat, To be put to her hands as well as her feet To carry home linen from mangles—Or heavy hearted, and weary-limbd,To dance on a rope in a jacket trimmd With as many blows as spangles. She was one of those who by Fortunes boonAre born, as they say, with a silver spoon In her mouth, not a wooden ladle :To speak according to poets wont,Plutus as sponsor stood at her font. And Midas rockd the cradle. At her first debut she found her headOn a pillow of down, in a downy bed, With a damask canopy over,For although, by the vulgar popular sawAll mothers are said to be in the straw, Some children are born in clover. Her very first draught of vital air, It was not the common chameleon fare Of plebeian lungs and no

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